Fermat's Last Theorem

xn yn zn where n represents 3 4 5 ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain." With these words the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. What came to be known as Fermats Last Theorem looked simple; proving it however became the Holy Grail of mathematics baffling its finest minds for more than 350 years. In Fermats Enigma--based on the authors award-winning documentary film which aired on PBSs "Nova"--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail and the lives that were devoted to sacrificed for and saved by it. Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics.